Who Likes Wheels?

[ejSabathia]

Originally Posted by Rob

OK, now that it is the offseason, many of us are coming up with concepts to possible use next year. Lots of people are also going over their favorite features of other teams machines. Why don't we share some info?

Wheels are fundamental to the operation of a FIRST robot. What types of wheels does your team prefer, and why?

If you buy your wheels, please list (and say why):

Source
Material
Size
Durometer rating (if applicable)

If you make custom wheels, Please list (and why):

What materials you use
How they are designes/assembled
What the wheels use as tread material and how it is fastened to the wheel

Don't feel left out if you like tracks! Tell us about them as well!

Hopefully everyone can get share some good info that we can all benefit from.
Thanks!

Rob

for the past...3 years we've (254) gone with custom wheels. before then we used the 6" skyway wheels from the kit. by going with custom milled aluminium wheels we were able to make a lighter/stronger wheel. the last plus is that we can put any kinda tred we want on them. here isa picture of what they evolved to in 04....

just to xplain what u r seeing the wheel is three pieces...

-the center red hub
-the blue webbing (the reason we made the hub and the webbing separate is so that when we need to change a wheel is doesn't mess with the chain tention or anything else, they just pop on n off)
-the silver ring (used to pinch the tred into the groove)

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=Verbose

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=Verbose